Total War: Pharaoh
Back to basics, but the most complex entry yet
Should you become Pharaoh, you’ll inherit an empire at the end of its golden age.
TURN BASED STRATEGY
Zoom in on the action, and you hear maces thudding into the skulls of their victims.
Pharaoh’s central belligerents have none of the personality of Three Kingdoms’ colorful generals.
CREATIVE ASSEMBLY’S
chosen setting for Total War: Pharaoh sits right upon the precipice of military history. The Battle of Kadesh, which took place about 100 years before Total War: Pharaoh begins, is the earliest pitched battle for which we have records of tactics and formations.
Playing as an Egyptian, Canaanite, or Hittite general, your goal is to conquer enough of the land around the eastern Mediterranean that your name is forever carved into the stele of history. In this, becoming Pharoah is merely the start of your aspirations. Around turn 12 of the campaign, you unlock a system known as “Power of the Crown”. This lets you choose to follow the path of becoming either the Egyptian Pharaoh or the Great King of Hatti. These positions come with slightly different benefits, but they’re attained in the same way— winning a civil war.